The Last Cheater's Waltz
Beauty and Violence in the Desert Southwest
From the recipient of the 1997 Whiting Award.Feeling disconnected from the wildly beautiful desert that she has known intimately for twenty years, award-winning writer Ellen Meloy embarks on a search for home that is historical, scientific, and spiritual. Her Map of the Known Universe, devised to guide her quest, reveals extraordinary details of a physical link between the atomic age and her home on Utah's San Juan River. The Map grows to include Los Alamos, the Trinity A-test site, White Sands Missile Range, and primary sources of uranium.Meloy casts her naturalist's eye on the Southwest's geography of consequence, where she finds unusual lo…
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- ISBN: 978-1-4668-7696-5
- EAN: 9781466876965
- Produktnummer: 22473462
- Verlag: Henry Holt and Co.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
- Seitenangabe: 240 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 285 KB
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Ellen Meloy
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